Palaeontology

Yves Coppens a pris la suite, au Collège de France, de l’abbé Breuil, de Teilhard de Chardin, de Leroy-Gourhan, les grands maîtres français de la préhistoire : « J’ai eu la chance de vivre, de bout en bout, une des aventures les plus exaltantes qu’aient connues les sciences de l’évolution depuis leur origine.

D’où vient l’Homme ?

Yves Coppens nous raconte dans ce nouveau livre, Des nouvelles de la préhistoire, ce qu’était la vie des premiers hommes, avec la précision qui est la sienne et toute la gourmandise de conteur qu’on lui connaît.

Pour saisir les origines de l’homme, il ne s’agit pas seulement de rechercher comment son corps s’est transformé ou quelles ont été ses migrations ; c’est la naissance de la pensée, de la culture, de l’art, de la religion même, qu’il faut tenter de cerner pour mieux comprendre comment il est devenu l’homme.

L’Homme a-t-il toujours été violent ?

Yves Coppens nous convie dans ce nouveau livre à l’exploration de l’homme et de son mystère.

Que nous dirait une femme de Neandertal si elle revenait dans notre monde d’aujourd’hui ?

D’où viennent les premiers hommes ?

La femme est-elle l’avenir de l’homme ?

Voici un livre qui retrace la formidable histoire de l’humanité depuis 4 millions d’années.

Qui ne s’intéresse pas aux origines de l’homme ?

Paul Tournal fut un touche-à-tout de génie.

Voici le récit de Raymonde Bonnefille, une des rares femmes à avoir participé aux expéditions archéologiques et paléontologiques en Éthiopie dans les années 1970.

Qu’y a-t-il avant l’Histoire ?

« Quatre-vingts ans de souvenirs, de rencontres, de voyages, d’initiatives, de résultats, de succès, de joies, de plein de petits plaisirs et de tout petits malheurs, de grands éblouissements.

On ne peut expliquer la fulgurante expansion d’Homo sapiens sur toute la Terre que par la puissance totale accordée à son audace, à son imagination et à sa quête d’autonomie.

L'humanité a eu son âge d'or, son époque de paix entre ses populations et d'harmonie avec la nature, son époque d'insouciance et de jeux sans fin.

« J’ai vécu pour l’archéologie.

Extrait : "Depuis le jour où l'homme a , pour la première fois, soulevé l'épiderme terrestre pour y creuser des sillons et pour y tracer des chemins ; depuis l'époque où il a su pénétrer dans le sein de l'écorce superficielle, soit pour y dérober l'eau potable, soit pour ravir aux entrailles du sol la pierre à bâtir ou le minerai, il a dû mettre en lumière l'existence des pétrifications et des coquilles.

Sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Denver Museum of Natural History.

A classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic Mosasaurs have captured the imagination of readers everywhere interested in prehistoric life, and they remain a focus of paleontological study to this day.

The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark publication showcasing prehistoric North American landscapes and ecosystems, from a celebrated paleontologist at Yale University's Peabody Museum The fiftieth anniversary edition of John H.

John H.

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstatten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order.

Most major recent advances in understanding the history of life on Earth have been through the study of exceptionally well preserved biotas (Fossil-Lagerstatten).

Does Genesis teach that the human race was created by God or engineered by ET's?

How do we distinguish between our ancestors'' ideas of God and close encounters of an extra-terrestrial kind?

'A beautiful gift.

Any inference drawn from plain remains recovered from archaeological sites is based on the classes of such remains that are, at present, possible to identify.

Any inference drawn from plain remains recovered from archaeological sites is based on the classes of such remains that are, at present, possible to identify.

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.

Plant-centred issues are fundamental in the definitions and explanations of the Neolithic as a phenomenon.

East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource.

East Anglia has long been known for its internationally significant cultural and environmental Palaeolithic archaeology, often overshadowing the potential of its Holocene resource.

Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology.

Taphonomic studies are a major methodological advance, the effects of which have been felt throughout archaeology.

When wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce learnt about the targeting of three private game reserves in the Western Cape in 2011 and the butchery of some of their rhinos, he embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness about the horrors of rhino poaching.

When wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce learnt about the targeting of three private game reserves in the Western Cape in 2011 and the butchery of some of their rhinos, he embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness about the horrors of rhino poaching.

Splendid and important.

Through a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

Only recently was it determined that two of the world's most devastating plagues, the plague of Justinian and the medieval Black Death, were caused by distinct strains of the same pathogen.

Deep in the wilderness of northern Maine in the mid-1950s, a Harvard PhD student is wading down a mountain stream into a remote valley.

What are fossils and what clues do they hold of the past?

Sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Denver Museum of Natural History.

The book is divided into 14 chapters dealing with all the aspects of palynology encompassing most recent information including an introductory chapter highlighting the organizational development of palynology.

A book of dinosaurs from Janet Evans featuring the world's top 16 most loved dinosaurs.

Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.

California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States.

California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States.